Exposure to airborne asbestos has been linked to an increased risk of several serious and debilitating diseases, including mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, and other types of cancer. Workers who ...

For decades, thousands of American workers were unknowingly exposed to asbestos on the job. Before safety regulations were widely enforced in the early 1980s, asbestos was a common material used in ...

The FDA has withdrawn a proposed rule requiring testing for asbestos in talc. Without the FDA talc asbestos rule, consumers ...

The international retailer Claire’s Stores Inc. says it has completed additional asbestos testing on samples of its children’s makeup and found no traces of the dangerous substance. Toward the end of ...

NEW YORK -- Tests performed by a consumer watchdog group found asbestos in three products marketed to children by the makeup company Claire's, several weeks after the company pulled products from ...